US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 15 for "Systems and methods of registration for image-guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,558, issued on July 15, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of registration for image-guided surgery" was invented by Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of registering sets of anatomical data for use during a surgical procedure is provided herein. The method may include segmenting a set of first modality image data representing a model of one or more passageways within a patient and generating a first set of points based on the se...